File under “why bother”.

Bloomberg: Canada Requiring Oil-Sands Projects to Store Carbon
The Canadian government today announced a plan to limit the carbon emissions from the booming oil sands development in Alberta. How? By requiring any new oil sands development projects after 2012 to sequester their carbon. That means another four full years of wholesale carbon emitting, followed by a weak-kneed law that already presents obvious loopholes (my first thought: what exactly constitutes a “new project”?) The oil sands industry is the largest carbon emitter in Canada, itself one of the worst carbon-emitting countries in the world. It is embarrassing that amid so much wealth there is so little interest in offsetting the damage the extraction causes.